A quantum-theoretical approach to the phenomenon of directed mutations in bacteria

2007/01/30 by Vasily Ogryzko, Ogryzko, Vasily
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT) #Philosophy and History of Science #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0701050

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Abstract

The Darwinian paradigm of biological evolution is based on the separability of the variation and selection processes. As a result, the population thinking had always been an integral part of the Darwinian approach. I propose an alternative scheme of biological adaptation. It is based on appreciation of limits of what we can observe considering an individual biological object. This leads to a possibility for the adaptation process to occur on the level of a single object, as a 'selection among virtual states of the organism'. I discuss the application of this idea to the phenomenon of adaptive mutations in bacteria.

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